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(Politico) — Bill Clinton says he can “sympathize” with the “resentments” that are fueling the Occupy Wall Street protests that have sprouted up across the country.

“They have an amorphous set of resentments for which I sympathize,” Clinton said in an interview with USA Today. “I don’t think Americans can continue this level of income inequality.”

But the former president’s advice to the Occupiers is that they need a clearer political agenda and that they should communicate more with political leaders.

The 42nd president said the state of the country is currently so bad that it “has a disturbing feel, like the bad recession we had at the end of the 19th century, when there was a lot of partisan discord.”